Earlier this year, Anna Lee Ackerman attempted the CTA ‘L’ Challenge, documenting her entire journey on TikTok. The goal is to ride every CTA train line and hit every ‘L’ stop as fast as possible. Host Jacoby Cochran sat down with Anna as she was planning her trip to ask why it’s worth doing, and to get her definitive (and possibly spicy) ranking of the city’s train lines.

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